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When Now it's time for the
crew in the driver's test

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and with the first days of the meters join
us in the don't drag is in continuous

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use like intestines making test runs into
in all places participate in cruise make

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run after run trying to get
their cars in perfect view

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for the spectator is an exciting time to
me because they have the opportunity to

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observe the many different
classes in action

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and compare their left this know with me

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when we left time to be set
during the time trial.

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When the

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IT the parking lots in
stands were filled to

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capacity as enthusiastic Sterns out in dry
hot rodding has really come of age in

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the last decade since one thousand nine
hundred fifty the sport has grown from only

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two active strips to the.

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Present colossal number
of more than two hundred

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and fiftie this group in Washington
represents the best into operation

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father drives and the whole family.

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I've just proved.

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Whether it's an airplane
engine or a V eight.

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There's always work to be
done and I cool drink.

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It's the spot on a hot day

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for us. The big day was here.

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We were ready for the flat out
run to see if we really had it

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or not we

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checked with champaign to make
sure we had the right heat range

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the Parkers were all added to making
their last minute adjustments

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a word with one of the toughest competitors
just Joe The Sidewinder crew from Long

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Beach California

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and then we were ready to take
her down to the line comes

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inside California.

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It's a Martin Nelson machine a master track
meant to be running down for a record

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run.

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Thank you for

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that with half a lap time on our contacts
watch a nine point one two nine point one

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two seconds the Nelson
Martin but it machine

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that matters drive master in the lowest
C.T. Of the ME so far in a possible record.

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They had to check the gas to make
sure we were in on rocket fuel

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light so mighty good on
the trip back to the pit

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with you never want to count your chickens

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or however the saying go is the day of
Illuminations we heard those expensive

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noises

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when we fired her neck

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was a big help.

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GA The usual

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and with nothing to do but tear all down

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and see what the trouble was to

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face it turned out to be
a twisted channel after

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so we dropped the ball out to Cam
and got it from the lower end.

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Fortunately the cam was OK The eliminations
were starting in time was working

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against the

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one hundred.

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Fifteen i national championship drag
races seen the Detroit drag way Detroit

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Michigan. We have competition coming from
as far south as the Panama Canal Zone

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and as far north as the Canadian area from
the East Coast to the west coast to cars

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in the sea again like many
parks around the dollar signs.

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It looks like everybody in
Detroit was in the stands

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for green is a guess you
can still want to know

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more diners with great Huckabee of Houston
Texas on the spectators die thinking in

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early.

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A Thunder Bird in the Corvette
in the Sports Car class to

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Chevy sedan vying for class on.

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The original hop from tomb St Roque's

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and often against the US in the
holder last winter because

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especially from Arizona taking the lead
in the modified code strictly in the

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competition last night in the snow because
last year's class winner blows up lose

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to Robert Andrews of Ohio.

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Bernie partridge in misfortune California
gets a good start in the modified notes a

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class. With only minutes left. We got our
buttoned up and down to the staging area.

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Jack loss' twin Chevy taking a good
lead over our fun screen monster

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visually taking a lead in his right
hand a very beautiful misfiled

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of lonely crisis drags in California
on the spectator side lonely

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tracks just getting off to a good start

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to sex

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and Jack Martin is fringe of the scene taken
by Ratzinger on the teller side those

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margin in the bank matches
losing to test this in a room

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like manager with a lower he kept
getting off the line better.

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Well that's Jaya grazing

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terminals are in his memory
getting off to a little

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less to some touches just the bronze

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and free from Ohio child
Johnson from Michigan.

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Failing Jon Klein from Massachusetts in the
modified rose to class very fast on the

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Southern Television to with Jake Sherman
the most highly taking a turn the thing we

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last thing here from Texas
eliminated Bill Templeton.

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My own

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and takes another step of the
ladder the crowd way trying

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to sleep with a run off of the little
eliminator to get under way there.

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Goes George Montgomery I think so high on

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the winner with hook line all dismissable
filed a vote for a class winner take

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son get the leader of Illinois a altered
winner to win middle and lemonade.

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While the party president of N.H.

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Are re talking to Mr and Cole
general manager of Chevrolet

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and Robert Peterson publisher of Hot Rod
magazine with Mr Tex Colbert present of

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the price of the corporation
the grand prize.

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The DA lubricants Chevrolet El Camino Rod
saying you're on the way up to the line

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to run against Jim Shandling for Mr Top
eliminator Rick gets a shot for Hot Rod

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and crowd watches and they're wrong
up to the halfway mark their neck

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and neck.

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And coming into the flat lands

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when you're way out in front bad luck
projects gentlemen who dropped the clutch in

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the hellish brothers
beautiful competition cook

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on the starting line the Green Monster
nine hundred forty five album car tracks

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there with much much go

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and then the blanket filament getting
the big resign The Apprentice

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and one of my one mile up the half way he's
done it in a big water is really coming

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out in a fab with a tough time coming from

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that time of one hundred seventy point
forty five mph one hundred seventy point

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forty five mph with the top time of the ME

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and then the alarm the trophy for travelling
the greatest distance to the Nationals

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accepted by.

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Mike Bender the award for
the best appearing car

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and crew goes to Darrell
Zimmerman of Colorado

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and the trophy for the
best engineer car to Mr

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and Mrs Linley's miswire
the third California.

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Wally parks presented the eliminators
healthy in the Sports Car class to Jack

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or is the junior of Miami Florida
one in his Lincoln powered devotee.

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George Montgomery of Dayton Ohio receiving
his Jovi for winning as the little

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eliminator with a beautiful oldies
automotive special and I can Ohio those

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that will be for little eliminate

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the mark.

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Nelson drag master was considered in the
judge's opinion the safest constructed car

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of the meet. They also won the trophy
for the lowest eighty lowly parks

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that can to the crew of the green monster
to share owners with are to our fans for

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establishing a new top speed record on gas
of one hundred seventy point forty five

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mph

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and here comes the singer Miller car being
pushed back to the winner's circle the

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car

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that won the meet

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and Mr Tough eliminator him self
Rod singer of Houston Texas

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and to the winner the beautiful champion
sparkplug trophy the DA lubricant El

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Camino and the kiss.

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And so another nationals draws
to a close records of been set

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and broken ideas have been
exchanged and those E.-S.

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Will return to garages and
workshops to create new machines

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that will go a little faster

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and get from here to there in a little less
time for this is the story of ingenuity

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in action.